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Seedfolks Vocabulary – Part 2
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Word
Part of Speech
Sentence in Novel
Definition-
guess and check
43
shriveled
verb
Then the heat came. The leaves Dry up
shriveled up.
47
hoe
noun
Hear man say his wife give him hoe for A long handled garden
birthday.
tool used to break up
dirt
60
obliged
verb
He wanted to stop. I obliged him at To do a
once.
kindness
60
pioneers
noun
To our left was a lot in which a few Person who finds a new
bold pioneers had planted gardens.
place.
61
haphazard adjectie
Some plots sported brick pathways Disorganized; random
and flower borders, while others
looked haphazard
62
entranced
verb
A hummingbird feeder, a barbecue To be delighted or put in
grill, a gardening hat hanging from a a trance.
nail- there were many such domestic
touches. I was entranced.
62
decisively
adverb
I’d brought with me a dozen seed Absolutely,
packets. Mr. Myles chose the flowers doubt
decisively, ignoring the vegetables.
favor
without
or
a
63
furrowed
adjective
What a marvelous sight it was to Deeply wrinkled
behold Mr. Myles’ furrowed black face
inspecting his smooth-skinned young,
just arrived in the world he’d shortly
leave.
65
loomed
verb
We got off the obseration deck on the Appeared
forty-second floor to find that the
garden, which loomed so large to its
tenders, was hopelessly hidden from
view by the buildings.
69
decorum
noun
Penny couldn’t shut her up. Then Appropriate behavior or
another woman came over and gave us manners
this long lecture about the word
“decorum”.
72
daze
noun
The word sort of put me into a daze. Trance
My body was part of nature.
73
crevices
noun
Here (in the garden) you have a million Cracks or openings
crabs living in a million crevices.
78
stutter
noun
We found out that he had a stutter.
79
exploit
noun
He was trusted and liked- and famous, Adventure
after his exploit with the pitchfork.
83
spigots
noun
I’m talking about that first year, before A faucet
there were new spigots and hoses, and
the toolshed, and new soil.
A speech problem when
sounds are repeated